What makes you think you’re right with God?

Watch enough crime shows or courtroom dramas, and you will hear, “I'm innocent,” or “I didn't do it.”

Our human default is to justify ourselves. We make excuses ("It's not that bad"), we make comparisons ("At least I'm not as bad as that guy"), or we blame our circumstances. We will go the extra mile trying to prove we are "good enough."

But trying to earn right standing with God through our own perfect performance is exhausting.

Last Sunday, we wrapped up our Fix Your Faith series with the answer to this question: What Makes You Think You're Right With God? We are going to look honestly at what it means to stop defending our flaws, drop our arguments, and step into the incredible freedom of being justified by faith alone.

Transcript

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Hey good morning, y'all. It's the Preacher Man here, Bland Crane. Welcome to another podcast, Preacher Man's podcast, sermons and lessons. We're going to try to do our best to make this intro incredibly quick simply because of the fact that every once in a while a sermon can go long, and we don't want that to happen very often. We want to be able to practice the age-old art of standing up to be heard and sitting down to be appreciated. Unfortunately, though, I I did not or was not able to accomplish that per se. And many, many out there do tell me, you know, hey. You preach as long as you need to preach, and and and they're really, really good about being encouraging. But I, for one, know the importance of less is more and and and and so I know that the message needs to be uh timed well. So the point of the story is that um I did go long, which makes my recording go long, which makes my podcast going to go long. So this is kind of like a double-duty thing. Um not only am I trying to uh explain a little bit about what's going on in the intro, but I'm also letting you know that this is a long sermon. So last Sunday we wrapped up the Fix Your Faith section of our Fix and 2026 series. We will be moving on to another section in a couple of weeks. And many times uh some some preachers uh uh put questions in their sermon title. Their sermon title is a question, and and and sometimes I do that, but a lot of r it's very rare that I do, but it just so happens that the think about it question that I normally put out there for everyone to think about while the sermon is going on is the same as the title of the lesson. So we're gonna go ahead and go ahead and jump into it, and I will go ahead and start this up for you. Uh this was preached last Sunday on the 7th. The sermon title is What Makes You Think You're Right With God? And I pulled from the main part of the text was from Luke 18, 9 through 14, which is the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. And we'll be back afterwards when it's over to wrap up and let you know what's going to be coming down the line next. Hope you still have your Bibles open to Luke eighteen. Luke eighteen is where we will be getting our start this morning. Before we get started, want to get you um update on a few things. Uh next Sunday, I will be away, and you will be blessed to hear a lesson by Cade Andrews, who will be here to fill in for me next Sunday, as well as Father's Day, when we will be uh working and attending and doing Central Texas Christian camps, which I'm happy to uh say that uh we had an answer to our prayers. We uh were able to get a uh the licensing's approved to have a full week of camp instead of a split like we were having to do. I know some of you have been keeping up with some of the situations that have taken place with our camps in general and our legislature and things like that. And so we are eternally grateful to uh have that blessing and to have that happen. I also I think we should also be and give attaboys out to those who were um went went above and beyond to make sure that that took place. Um if if if you don't stay on top of things, you you wind up missing some stuff. And we got a really good uh a good deacon, a good steward, a good camp director, and Joe and Lori who are uh overseeing that, and I am one proud person to be associated with them in that camp. So um just really, really thankful for that. And I and I I I request your prayers on behalf of the camp. Uh when camp starts, we will hopefully we'll have a full house. We'll have a bunch of kids running around, and we want you know good weather, good experience, good learning experience. And uh I also want to extend an invitation to anyone that uh wants to come on over to uh Camp Hensel, just outside of Marble Falls, and uh spend the day with us. Um it's a it's a pretty long trip, but it uh ask some of the some of the people who have already come down. It's well worth the trip to visit and just see what we do and see uh what those kids learn. It's a wonderful, wonderful experience. Wrapping up today is we're gonna wrap up our fix your faith section of our big uh series in Fix and 26. And uh to uh to kind of introduce this lesson, I want to uh tell you about a movie that I'm sure many of you have many of you seen, know about. Maybe you even read it because it was written, it was a it was a story by Stephen King before it became a movie. Um and and and it's not necessarily the the the movie in general is what I want to highlight. The movie in general is about a uh a man who is um accused of murder, murdering his wife, is uh sent to uh prison, Shawshank prison, and he meets some very interesting characters there. And um uh eventually it he, due to some unfortunate circumstances, uh decides that he needs to escape because he, and he does successfully escape. I'm spoiling it for you, I know if you haven't seen it. And uh it's about the relationships that he experiences while he's in prison. And the one of the one of the interesting uh scenes in that pr in that scene in that movie is where he is he's he's learning more about his fellow inmates. And uh they're out and they're in the in the big big yard, or I think they're throwing a baseball around. They're playing, they're throwing a baseball around recreation, and uh he he's talking to uh uh his new friend Red, played by Morgan Freeman. And uh Red asks, so what are you in? What are you in here for? He goes, Well, uh uh I I was accused of murder, but but I'm innocent. I didn't I didn't kill my wife, someone else did, and it landed on me. And Morgan Freeman kind of smiles and grins and says, Well, you're in the right place, Bubba. He goes, What do you mean? And he says, Well, hey, hey, Jake, what are you in for? And and the first response is, I didn't do it. And then he goes, Hey, Bob, what are you in for? He goes, I'm innocent. And then he the character Andy turns to Red and says, Well, Red, what are you in for? And he goes, Oh, I'm I'm in here for murder. I I did it, I'm guilty. But what was insinuated in that scene is that there are a lot of people, and and we know, we know of, and I know of people who have gone to prison who have who have been found guilty, but in truth of the matter is they were totally innocent of the charges. And we all know that. We all have experienced that, and we all have seen that take place. But we also know that there are a lot of people who have been found guilty who it's without a shadow of a doubt they are guilty, but they don't want to admit it. They will claim their innocence, and in fact, it it's it's it's even been seen, and and and I'm sure if you've we've watched any enough uh uh uh courtroom dramas and uh dramas about you know lawbreakers and this, that, and the other, you know, you've seen the scenes where people will even go to their death claiming they're innocent, claiming they're innocent, when truth matters, they're really, really guilty. It's very rare, but sometimes, it's very rare, but sometimes the title of the lesson is also the question that I want you to think about. As we go through this lesson, and we look at this is this is the what this is the question that I want you to think about, and that is what makes you think you're right with God? What makes you think you're right with God? I think that what we're gonna figure out here, and the main point of this lesson is this is that you cannot earn a right standing with a perfect God through your own performance. And so I would submit to you this morning that you should and I should, and y'all, I think you know this by now that most of the sermons that I do and preach are they're all for me, and y'all just get to hear the leftovers because I'm I'm the world's worst at a lot of things. But you've I've got I have got to learn, we've got to learn what it means to drop our defenses and to have full, entire reliability on specifically the blood of Jesus. We're talking about self-justification. I don't know if this has ever happened to you, but many times when there is a confrontation, and you are the one being confronted, or when someone is being confronted, or I'm when I'm being confronted, there's really two roads that you can take. One is incredibly short, and the other could go on forever. The first road, the short road is when you're confronted by something that you've done, and you know you did it, you're guilty.

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The short road is, yeah, I did it.

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And I was wrong. And I repent. I'm gonna seek forgiveness. Problem solved, moving on. The problem is, is that we try to, when when we're when we're confronted with something, we try to practice a little self-justification. And we do it in stages. First thing that happens when we're confronted by something that we've done, we're guilty of it, we we we we we justify ourselves with technicality. Well, you know, Charles, I really don't think what I did was really a sin. I don't know. Maybe you're not. I don't know. I really don't think what I did was a sin. And if that doesn't work, if that doesn't work, then we try to justify ourselves with comparison. You know, Aaron, yeah, I may have done that, Aaron, but at least I'm not like old so-and-so who lives down the road. You should know what you should see what he does. And then if that doesn't work, like I said, this road goes on forever. If that doesn't work, we bring out the justification with circumstances. John, the only reason why I did that was because of the situation I was in. And if you were in my situation, you would have done the exact same thing. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but I'm I seriously believe that I'm not on the I'm on the right track with a lot of this. You know who was really good or they thought they were really good with justification? That would be our good friends the Pharisees. Which is why Jesus starts out this parable with verse 9. He told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves, trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and they viewed others with contempt. The Pharisees put their full justification, their their their their they put, they they because they had this idea that because they were in strict obedience to the law, because they followed the law as faithfully and as right as they could, that made them right in the sight of God. Obedience to the period is what makes them, is what made them believe they were right. Well, and what you know, and they and and well, how can you how can you say that? How can a Pharisee say that? Well, simply it's very simple. They believed they were right because they believed they were right. Who who was gonna tell them different? And so as look, and so as Luke says, they trusted themselves because they were righteous. So the so the problem is that while they were trying to justify themselves is the same problem that we have when we try to justify ourselves. And that is this. No matter how you slice it, no matter what version of the Bible you read out of, no matter what church you go to, no matter what you think you know, there is no justification for any sin. I'm gonna say that again. There is no justification for even one sin. There's no excuse. There sure ain't no defense. In essence, Paul is right when he says in Romans, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We're guilty. We're guilty.

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We can cry, I didn't do it, or I'm innocent all day long.

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Jesus told this parable so that there would be a self-awareness of where you stand in this concept of self-justification. Verses eleven and twelve talk about how the prayers were even different. The Pharisee had a prayer, and the and the tax collector had a prayer. And he he he he prayed standing. And he prayed, and my verse, the version that I read out of says, regarding himself. God, I thank you, I am not like other people. And he goes down the list. And just to put the cherry on top of that prayer, exhibit a Lord, I'm not even like this tax collector. Then he starts talking to God about all the things that he does.

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I fast, I tithe.

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And he thinks that in the end, he thinks he doesn't need to be justified by God. He approached this situation in a righteous mindset. He thought he was an innocent man. But we know that wasn't true. Pharisees, anybody can be as guilty. The problem is, is when you refuse to recognize it. And and this is probably one of my favorite, favorite parables out of Luke because while I may not understand all there is to understand about Pharisees, even though I probably act like one a lot of times, I can definitely relate to that tax collector. He goes off and he stands over here in the corner. He doesn't he doesn't raise his head or lift holy hands. If he can get underneath the temple, he will. And he beats his chest.

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He knew his guilt.

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God be merciful to me. My version says, Be merciful to me, the sinner. He he he wants he he he I don't even want to s I don't even want to say it. I I don't want to say it's me, but I am that I am the sinner. I am the sinner. Jesus says that that man. And went home, went to his house justified rather than the other. When someone puts their faith and hope and trust in performances and his obedience to the rules of God, and he thinks that's going to make him justified in the sight of God. Mercy will not be found. God's mercy happens when and only when we are willing to admit that we are guilty as charged. And we stop trying to make all of this self-justification. In case you didn't know, here's the gospel in its simplest form. Jesus Christ, who was there when the world was created, was sent down here to earth to take care of all of mankind's sin problems. And he could do it because his blood is perfect. Because he committed no sin. In order for sin to be taken care of according to the law, something or someone, something has to die. A lamb, a calf, a bull, pigeons, you name it. Something has to die. John the Baptist said that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who will take away the sins of the world. So Jesus in turn became that perfect blood sacrifice that will ultimately take care of all, capital A L L, not the detergent, all sin once and for all. When you hear or when you read in the Bible and you see or you see the word atone, that simply means to cover over. So Jesus's the blood that Jesus offered was a atoning sacrifice. It means that it covers over sin. It covers over the guilt. It covers over the shame. And because of that, God considers anyone who is covered by Jesus' blood to be completely righteous, to be completely justified in the sight of God. But in order, but in order to be, but in order to be covered by that blood of Jesus, in order to be found and seen completely righteous and in the sight of God, there are some things that we must do. And for some, it's a hard concept to understand. How many times have you gotten a present? Someone brought you a Coke and a candy bar. How many times does someone think about you on your birthday or on your anniversary and bring you a gift? And you get that gift, and the first thing you say is, oh, you shouldn't have. Instead of thank you for thinking of me. I don't know why. Maybe it's because how we were raised, or or it's some kind of, I don't know what the why we do this, but we do this all the time. And in order for us to accept this, in order for us to be covered by his blood, we have to accept God's gift by faith. Because that's what it is. It's a gift. You didn't earn it. You didn't, and it's and it's not one of those gifts you you flag and tag in the Amazon webpage. Someone thought about you enough, loved you enough that they went out and did this and handed it to you. And the only acceptance that is needed is thank you. Not all you shouldn't have. Or I didn't get you anything. None of that. That's baloney. So you have to accept the gift of faith. You have to, you have to, you have to be willing to put all of your trust in Jesus. Yeah, we've heard sermons about that, Bland. Keep going. Okay. Then you have to admit that there is no excuse. You have to admit there is no defense for your rebellious life and for your sin. Heard that before, preacher man. Keep going. Okay. When I read this sentence in the article that I read that kind of helped me build this lesson, it was like being punched in the gut. Are you ready? Here we go. In order to be covered by the blood of Jesus, to be found righteous and to be found justified. I have to admit that I'm guilty, obviously. I have to admit that I am, I have to admit that I'm a sinner, obviously. But I also I have to admit that I deserve to die. How far are you willing to go? Some of us have no problems. Oh yeah, I know I'm guilty. Oh yeah, I've sinned and fallen through the glory of God. I know that, I know that, I know that. But wait a minute. Are you willing to admit that because of the sin and because of the all this other stuff that you are you willing to go as far as to say, yeah, I did it? Yeah, the court was right. Yeah, the jury got got got the verdict right. Yeah, I need to be somewhere where I can be contained, and yeah, I need to die. Okay, now let's let's get off this bad stuff. Let's get let's let's let's get something positive here. We have to accept. We have to accept all that. We have to accept that we deserve death, but we also have to accept that by faith his blood and his blood alone has the ability to make you right with God. Mercy. Woo-hoo, yeah, that's what we want. That's mercy. Now, the problem is this. See, the Christians and the churches in the first century, when the church, just getting started, and all over the places, the first Christian, the Christians in the first church, they had this problem. They tried to do it both ways. They tried to have it both ways. They tried to be Christians, but at the same time, they because they because they were trying to be Christians, they thought they could justify themselves. And boy, Paul, bless his heart, Paul, he spent a lot, a lot of time. Paul, boy, he tried to explaining pretty simply. Sorry, first uh far church in Galatia, in Ephesus, and Corinth. You can't have it both ways. And if you if you want to read a little something about that, go over to Galatians 5 and read what he writes about the law and circumcision, and also in uh in chapter 6, about verse 13, he goes he kind of circles back to this idea of you are either supposed to follow the law completely, or you are to follow the law of God. You can do both. It will be impossible for you to do both. You cannot have it both ways. But what really is points out, he points it out in chapter 2, verse 20 in Galatians 2, 20, where he says, I have been crucified with Christ. Why? Because I deserve the death. Let me go back there. I deserve death. I deserve death. So I've been crucified with Christ, and as I who no longer live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I and I live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. Now, look at verse 21. I do not nullify the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, the law of Moses, the Old Testament, law of Moses, then guess what?

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Christ died for nothing.

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If it was possible, if it was even remotely possible to be obedient to all this stuff in the Old Testament, then we would not need Jesus' blood.

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And therefore, Jesus died for no purpose at all.

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This is why, in many ways, this is why amongst our tribe, we really have a focus and we really want to bring about and bring home this subject of baptism. When we are going and when we are being baptized, when someone is being baptized, you know what they're really saying? As they're going down in the water, as they're making that good confession, as they're making a statement in front of witnesses, what they're really saying is baptism is basically saying, have mercy on me, God, the sinner. We are expressing complete trust in the atoning power of the blood of Christ. We are acknowledging that, yeah, we're guilty. But you know what also we are acknowledging? Man, I want forgiveness and I want it something bad. I want mercy. I want it bad. I know I deserve to die. But I would really, I would, I really want, I really want to be saved. We are committing ourselves. We're working baptism shows that you are committing yourself to a lifelong reliance upon Jesus. We're also saying in baptism that we're never gonna be worthy. We're always gonna be in need of that atoning blood sacrifice. We're always going to try to, along the same lines, we're gonna try and be committed to be faithful to Him. Romans 6, 1 through 7. What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? By no means. Far from it. How shall we, he, we who died in sin, still live in it? Or do you not know that all who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death? Therefore, we've been buried with him through baptism into death, so that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life. For we have become united with him in the likeness of his death. We will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with him in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. For the one who has died is freed from sin. When you die in baptism. So not only is baptism that moment where we express faith, where we receive Christ, where we where we receive the Holy Spirit, we get salvation by faith. I want to tell you something though. There's something that you got to be careful. We got to be careful. We got to be careful not to think that we are justified because of our obedience. Follow me on this. Look at Timothy. Timothy, uh 2 Timothy 1, 8 through 12. Therefore, he says, Timothy, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me as prisoner, but join with me in the suffering for the gospel according to the power of God. Now, verse 9, who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our what? Our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was granted to us in Christ Jesus from all eternity. But has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, for which I'm appointed a preacher, apostle, and teacher. For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to protect what I have entrusted to him until that day. There is a real, there is a real danger, church, in thinking and trying to retrow around and pat ourselves on the back after baptism, saying, I am right with God because I obeyed. The devil, Satan would love nothing more, would love nothing more for us to get baptized and then think it is a process through which we justify ourselves. The devil would love nothing more to think that we, because we got baptized, we are obeying and listening to some new law to prove that you know what? We're actually pretty good people. That old devil would love nothing more for you to think that we have earned something after baptism rather than receiving something that is a gift that you didn't, that you couldn't even think about picking out. Because the devil wants you and wants me and everyone else to be in this toxic, stuck state of mind that it is, that we are constantly trying to prove that we have been good enough.

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And that if we keep on just being good enough, we will earn that salvation.

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You can't earn squat in this world. Name me one thing, honestly, name me one thing you think you can earn without someone else helping you or providing for you or giving you an opportunity. Good God Almighty gave you the ultimate opportunity to be one with Him. And some are still twiddling their thumbs and waiting, some are still unsure because, well, I don't know if baptism's a work, or I don't know if baptism's this, or I don't know. If Jesus said to chew bubblegum and stand on your head to behave to be saved, would you do it? Would you try to do it? Because I know some, I can't stand on my head. It is so frustrating. There are there are, oh gosh, there are 10 examples in the book of Acts where the gospel was preached, the gospel was heard, the gospel was understood, and the first thing they did was they wanted to get in the water. And we had the audacity to over 2,000 years later, with the book being with the Bible being the number one bestseller, you can download it on your phone, you can get it to Walmart, and you look at that book, and you can't see that baptism is essential to be saved and to become a member of the church.

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What's wrong with you people? If Jesus said, lay your hands on the television set, would you do it? What's so hard about baptism?

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What's hard is your uncertainty, not yours. What's hard is some people's uncertainty. What's hard is if I get baptized, does the message that I'm sending out getting baptized mean that the people who I love the most who are not baptized that mean they're going to hell? That's not understandably so, but that's not the issue. Yes. Do you from this day forward will allow him to be Lord and Master of your life? Then yes. Then just like the conversation that happened with the Ethiopian eunuch, here is water, what hinders me from being baptized. Baptism is a lot more than just making a statement. Baptism is a lot more than just getting forgiveness of sins. Baptism is where we say and back up what we have just confessed. Christ went into his death and rose again. We go into the waters of baptism and we rise again in newness of life, just like we've read already before. And I have gotten, I need to get off my soapbox and move on. Because he wants us to be in a state of mind where we constantly are trying to prove that all we have to do is just be good enough. And we, if we're just good enough, then we'll get that salvation. Because it really comes to the point of understanding what does it mean by faith alone. Now, last Sunday, I preached in James, and I'm not trying to circle back or reland this point here, but it kind of I said before that sometimes I'm gonna be repeating myself through this lesson on fixture faith. Well, here it goes. In James 2, 4, James said last Sunday, person is justified by works and not by faith alone. And I said already, he's not contradicting what Paul wrote about or what the Hebrew writer wrote about. He is really backing it up. Faith is not something, as you know, I know, faith is not something that we merely intellectually uh believe we live it out. Okay, well then we are we are demonstrating our faith when we when we when we decide to get baptized when we make the decision to get baptized. It is right, it is correct to say that we are justified by faith in Christ so long as we realize that our faith in Christ is something that is lived out in daily discipleship. Sometimes I think we get our terminology mixed up. There is a huge difference in justification and salvation. And sometimes I think we kind of jumbled them all together. Make no mistake, there's a huge difference in justification and salvation. We are justified because we believe and we trust in Jesus, and that belief and that trust can be seen in what we do. Our belief and trust isn't evident in our good works. If our belief, if our trust isn't evident in our good works, then guess what? It doesn't actually exist. Let me show you how this all gets how this all comes together in emerging form. I just we just talked about James, right? Well, okay, this is what it says in Ephesians 2.8. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not for yourselves. This is what? Oh, there's there's that word, a gift of God. Grace is the gift of God. James, now Ephesians. Now, look at look at look at Ephesians 2.9. Not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship created in Jesus Christ for good works, which God prepared before us so that we would walk in them. Okay? Now go to the net now watch how this all merges together. Romans 3.27. When then is boasting, it has been excluded. By what kind of law? Question mark? Is it of works? Question mark? No. By the law of faith. For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Look at uh Romans 5 1. Therefore, we have been justified by faith. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we also have obtained our introduction by faith into his grace, and to this grace in which we stand, and we celebrate in the hope of the glory of God. The only way for there to be this synergy is to understand that if you're going to talk about faith, then salvation is going to come into the conversation. Fixing your faith, solidifying, growing, whatever you have your own bit, is a part of that salvation journey. So what's the takeaway this morning? First of all, how about this? Stop trying to prove you are good enough. It's not gonna happen. All you can do, and no, I say can, all you can do is trust in the one who is good enough. Here's another one for you. True faith is not just an intellectual agreement or a based on historical facts that we believe in our head. Real faith is lived out. Real faith is action, it's a lifelong commitment. It's having full reliance on Christ's blood. And that reliance should be visible in how we live every single day. Now, listen to me when I say this. One cannot be a Christian unless you understand and are willing to embrace justification by faith. I'm not saying you're not now or you weren't then. I'm just saying Christianity, there is got to be an understanding of what it means to be justified by faith. And finally, what makes you think you're right with God? Is it confidence in yourself or is it in the saving blood of Christ Jesus? Someone pulled me aside at that morning and said, Well, the reason why you went long was so that we would have plenty of things to study, think about, and read while you were gone the next two Sundays. And honestly, that was not my intention, I promise. The um what's going to take place in uh next week, just to kind of give this a quick wrap-up next week there will not be a podcast posted simply because of the fact that I won't be here to preach one. Instead, I'm going to try to uh post a link if I can get it onto my Facebook page of the young man who uh who fills in for me while when I'm gone, and that's Kate Andrews. Kate is a part of a of a group of preachers who work in churches, uh smaller congregations that don't have full-time ministers, and they do fill-ins and they swap out and they kind of rotate out. And Cade has uh Kate's parents uh worship here at Northcrest and occasionally he has filled in for me in the past and has done a very good job. So we're excited to have him here for the next two Sundays. He uh always does a good job, and I know he will, and so I will do my best to try to post that link to his podcast page or their podcast page so that you can kind of know what was preached and listened to again if you are one of those who likes to go over what was preached the Sunday before if you just didn't get a chance to hear it. Then what will take place next is will be the week of camp. Um during the week of camp, that's Father's Day Sunday. I will not also be here, I will be at Central Texas Christian Camp helping there, working there, and I intend to intend to record not only the lesson that I will preach there at camp, but also I will record the Bible class that I will be teaching that week. And then I will take that and in many ways, I guess I will do two podcasts uh the following week of camp. Summer is already upon us and we are busy, busy, busy. Let's not get too busy to do and think about what's important, and that's how we can glorify God in all that we do. I look forward to hearing from you. If you have a question, if you have a comment, if you have uh anything you'd like me to maybe bring up on the show, I would love to hear from you. You can contact me once again at preacherman1178 at gmail.com. That's preacherman1178 at gmail.com. And who knows, your question, your uh idea may be a part of the next show in the coming lineups. Until then, I hope you have a safe couple of weeks. I hope that everything goes well for you. And Lord Willin, we'll be back on uh the podcast in on around the end of the month. So stay tuned. Thanks for listening, and always remember who you are and whose you are.